Amy Barron is an independent scholar and Curator at the Scugog Shores Museum in Ontario. She holds her degrees from the University of Toronto (Ph.D.) and the University of Guelph. Her areas of specialization are Late Assyria, particularly Assyrian arms and armor, palaces and propaganda of the Neo-Assyrian kings, and the history of archaeology. She has done fieldwork at Tel Tuneinir in Syria, as well as at Tel Jezreel in Israel and Newark Castle in England.